The Grand Chase philippines closed beta testing stage will end today, and this means that your character and all your in-game items will be wipe out for the preparation of the Grand Chase Open Beta Stage that will begin on the 4th of November.

Don’t be mad, you grandchaser!

Almost all gaming company/publishers around the world do the “wiping” when they switch from closed beta to open beta phase.

Closed beta and Open beta in games are just a few of the testing phases undergone by a game, It is done to complete a game development and localization to have it fully functional at the official or commercial launch.

A closed beta version of a game are released to a selected or volunteer group of individuals who were given a closed beta account by the gaming company/publisher, for a user test.

Meanwhile an Open beta version of a game are often released to a larger community , usually the general public, where they can freely register for an account to play the game,

Games in open beta version had almost all the features you can see at the final/commercial version of a game, but because its still in beta period, minor bugs can still be found that has to be reported by beta testers to the gaming publisher/company for them to be fix.

Wipe outs are still possible at this stage, If an exploit/bug was found to cause an in-game imbalance, but this seldom happens.

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And because of the “wipe-out thing” in almost all closed beta testing phase of a game, this is not the right time to play if you want to gain advantage over those playing later, when talking about in-game character levels and wealth .

But you’ll surely gain game experience, so you’ll be up and ready when the official launch comes.

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